Writing
An archive. These posts were written between 2019 and 2020 on my old blog, There is no finish line. They’ve been carried over here unchanged.
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IronMan
On Saturday, 19th September 2020, I joined the small group of humans that can call themselves Ironmen. 5k swim (long story), 180k bike and 42.2k run. It took me 14 hours...
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Biking at Home: Virtual Cycling
Getting back on that bike has been hard. I brought my first TT bike in January this year and have struggled to get out during the colder and darker months. One morning I...
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Get comfortable being uncomfortable: Submit to the process
I’ve had several situations over the past few years where I’ve needed to accept that I was in an uncomfortable situation that I couldn’t control. I noticed that the phras...
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A full week on Huel
The lockdown highlighted just how routine and automated parts of my life were and it really threw me
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Don’t limit yourself: Brighton Half marathon 2020
Don’t limit yourself. I do it all the time, last week I ran the Brighton Half Marathon in 1:39. My previous time was 1:49. I didn’t think I could do much more than 1:45 a...
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Never give up: South Devon 55k 2020
I set out with a rough plan knowing that getting to the start was all I needed to do, from there I could move forward bit by bit. I had my first experience of hitting the...
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Confront the unknown: swim to Alcatraz
This morning I got up early, put on my wet suit, called an Uber and went out to confront the unknown….in the cold. I met a woman called Sylvia who took me out on her boat...
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60k New York Ultra race report
I’m currently in Vegas having just checked in, I’m visiting 4 cities whilst here in America and two days ago I completed my first 60km ultra marathon in Central Park, New...
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